Download: Web 2.0 Date Icons For Your Blog

So you want a sleek looking date icon for all your posts on your blog or web page do you? Well you’ve come to the right place. Below is a collection of different colors and styles you can choose from and customize. You can grab the .zip of the .PNG’s and .PSDs (separated for bandwidth reasons). You can use these however you feel fit, no limitations no real licensing. If you scroll down a little further you will see how to implement this into your wordpress blog.

First download and unzip the archive. Then pick out your favorite color and open it in photoshop. You will now “save as…” the file into a .gif to be titled “dateicon.gif”…. why are we doing this? Because your visitors using the unholy Internet Explorer 5 or 6 cannot view semi-transparent .png’s.

When you save the gif a dialog will appear. Select the dropdown box next to “Palette” and select “Local (Selective)”. Make sure the check box next to “Transparency” is ticked (checked). Now select the “Matte” drop box and select “White.” and click OK. Now you have a IE friendly transparent .gif. Upload it into your wp-themes/YOURTHEMEHERE/images directory.

Adding the CSS/XHTML To WordPress

Log into your WordPress Admin Panel and go to “Presentation.” Now click on “Theme Editor” and select “style.css” on the right side (this is usually brought up automatically).

36 thoughts on “Download: Web 2.0 Date Icons For Your Blog”

Thanks for sharing this!
It would be very useful if you could specify the usage rights for this. Would you allow the usage of your icons in personal blogs only or also business ones. Would you allow the usage in free distributed temples? What about commercial templates?

Hello & thank you for the icon and tutorial. I followed all the directions, carefully making note of my correct image path, but the icon will not show at all. The date does show, but the icon will not. Any ideas? Thanks.